EEVIAC Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 North Queensland - about an hour outside of Cairns. My guess is that it arrived in Australia Tuesday last week, the rest of transit taken up by regular mail. (I know it couldn't have arrived any earlier because I've been checking my postal box twice a day.) As for the game - I was ready to be disappointed. I've been playing JA2 for a week in expectation of the best TB squad-strategy game in years. Surely there was a chance the game might not be as good as I thought it would be. (I haven't played the demo and my opinion of it was based solely on forum comments and the fact that an Australian S2 fansite had been set up for a game that didn't even have an official release in that country.) So it was with trepidation that I approached the first mission, after spending a good 20 minutes making sure that my Axis alter-ego expressed just the right amount of cruelty in the thinness of his lips, and just enough compassion and vulnerability in the furrow if his brow. After taking out most of my combatants with a few sprays of SMG fire, I found myself pressed up hard against the right-side wall of the bank. Fairly rudimentary stuff, but my confidence in the game is growing. An enemy pops into view from inside and fires a few shots at me. I hold my breath, as I do in TB games, and hope they miss. They miss by miles. In retaliation I open up and fire a barrage through the front doors, glass and splinters and bullets spraying everywhere. For a moment I feel almost sorry for the doomed bank robber, crouched behind some flimsy doors, toe to toe with a madman who has a penchant for full-auto SMG fire. I feel his fear. This is when it dawns on me, an understanding, an epiphany : I am playing this game, and it is, indeed, heavenly. By the way - sorry for going off topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggy Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 :lol: lovely. My homicidal squad leader has a penchant for knives, and bandages it seems. :twisted: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 Nice post! You should write fan fiction I look forward to hearing how you find the game as a whole... maybe in a new thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kollos71 Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 Not YET!Ordered from Gogamer and got shipping notice on Monday 11/3.Noting to my state yet.Come on international shipping guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kintaro Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 Got it today for 25$ by play.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hell Kitty Posted November 12, 2003 Report Share Posted November 12, 2003 My copy arrived today in central west NSW, Australia. It was sticking out of the mailbox. Heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles Posted November 13, 2003 Report Share Posted November 13, 2003 Hey you're another Aussie, very cool! Where did you order yours from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hell Kitty Posted November 13, 2003 Report Share Posted November 13, 2003 Hey you're another Aussie, very cool! Where did you order yours from? I got it from Strategic Plus Software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles Posted November 13, 2003 Report Share Posted November 13, 2003 Ahh yes, I came across their website. It looked a bit unproffresional so I was wary of ordering from them. Glad to hear you got your copy OK! Actually looking at their site now it looks better than when I was last there, perhaps my memory is of a different site. Still, nice to have a store that specialises in a certain type of game. there's an Australian store Military Simulations I think it's called which stocks strategy/military PnP & Computer games I wonder if they'll be importing S2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Holliday Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 New to s2hq, but not Silent Storm. I've been addicted to the Demo for weeks now. Ordered a copy from "Strategic Plus Software," (?), some UK game store. God I hope I can trust 'em! Just 10 days man! Wish I had checked gameplay.com first if it's better... crap....looks like somebody got it SPS, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 Gameplay may have been a bit quicker, but I think you'll be happy with Strategic Plus, no one has complained about them at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hell Kitty Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 I ordered it from Strategic Plus, and it only took a few days to get here. (I choose the Swiftair option) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Holliday Posted November 18, 2003 Report Share Posted November 18, 2003 I made my order from SPS air-priority too, but they haven't really contacted me yet of if it's even been dispatched yet. Getting kinda nervous. But your confidence in SPS helps. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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